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Sunday, December 29, 2013

The 2013 NFL Prognostication Contest Winner Is..

Arrgh. Like my fave NFL team, too little and way too late to defend my
prognostication title. That title is going to Arizona unless Eli has a
horribly bad week 17 and Mike conversely has a monster good one.--TransGriot, December 27, 2013

Our champion for the 2013.NFL season is Eli, but not before Mike had that monster week I talked about..

While I closed with a 23-9 late season sprint and had an excellent Week 17, had too much of a hole to climb out of. Mike also went 23-9 in the last two weeks and won this week with a stellar 14-2 record while Eli was 21-11 to give Mike a shot at overtaking him.

If Mike had gotten the Miami-NY Jets and Minnesota-Detroit games right, he would have had a perfect week and taken the title. Congrats to Eli, our 2013 NFL prognostication champ and Mike for another fantastic finishing kick that came up just short.

I know I want to do this again next season, and if any of you other bloggers want in on this prognostication battle, let me know before August 2014

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Monica Roberts, AKA the TransGriot (Gree-oh) is a native Houstonian, GLAAD award nominated blogger, writer, and award winning trans human rights advocate. She's the founding editor of TransGriot, and her writing has appeared at the Bilerico Project, Ebony.com, The Huffington Post and the Advocate.
She works to foster understanding and acceptance of trans people inside and outside communities of color and was recently honored with the Virginia Prince Transgender Pioneer Award

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The TransGriot blog's mission is to become the griot of our community. I will introduce you to and talk about your African descended trans brothers and trans sisters across the Diaspora, reclaim and document our chocolate flavored trans history, speak truth to power, comment on the things that impact our trans community from an Afrocentric perspective and enlighten you about the general things that go on around me and in the communities that I am a member of.

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